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Avarice In America
Number of Words: 456 / Number of Pages: 2
... of America because their livelihood depended on the American working class. The Unions then persuaded the government to regulate the business giants and control the amount of money the companies could take in by disallowing monopolies and child labor. The "Kings of Capitalism" disregarded the impact their actions had on the lives of the working class men and their families. Many went hungry because of the lack of jobs available and were forced to go into debt to the companies that was impossible to be repaid. The Robber Barons would do almost anything to gain more money and more power even putt ...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Number of Words: 332 / Number of Pages: 2
... and death.
The movie contains more than one theme. The first, shows the importance of bravery and sacrifice and the second shows the ruthlessness and betrayal that goes on in government. In the “government defense officer” believes that he is betrayed by the woman he wants to marry and later betrays her. He goes so far as to threaten to put her brother in jail if she does not help him catch . In these times, it was possible to be put to death for being accused of treason against the government. The revolution that was going on was very necessary, but some of the people that were bringing it about w ...
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Effectiveness Of The Articles
Number of Words: 399 / Number of Pages: 2
... states. The thirteen states acted like thirteen separate nations as they, for the most part, functioned as they pleased.
Document G reveals the discontent of the people in the ineffectiveness of their national government under the Articles of Confederation. John Jay (Secretary of Foreign Affairs and great international negotiator), expresses this discontent of the people through a letter of concern to George Washington. He foreshadowed some sort of revolt, crisis, or revolution and expressed his feeling of uneasiness and the need for change. Shay’s rebellion turned out to be a milestone because it ...
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Spanish Settlement Of The West
Number of Words: 1592 / Number of Pages: 6
... of U.S. expansion goals is with the
Mexican-American War. From the beginning, the war was conceived as an
opportunity for land expansion. Mexico feared the United States expansion
goals.
During the 16th century, the Spanish began to settle the region. The
Spanish had all ready conquered and settled Central Mexico. Now they wanted
to expand their land holdings north. The first expedition into the region,
that is today the United States Southwest, was with Corando. Corando
reported a region rich in resources, soon after people started to settle the
region. The driving force behind the sett ...
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The MANDAN INDIANS
Number of Words: 1292 / Number of Pages: 5
... served as a smokestack. Each earth lodge housed 10-30 people and their belongings, and villages contained 50-120 earth lodges. The frame of an earth lodge was made from tree trunks, which were covered with criss-crossed willow branches. Over the branches they placed dirt and sod, which coined the term earth lodge. This type of construction made the roofs strong enough to support people on nights of good weather. The floors of earth lodges were made of dirt and the middle was dug out to make a bench around the outer edge of the lodge. Encompassing the village were stockades of poles as tall as six feet ...
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Romaticism And Romantic Authors
Number of Words: 810 / Number of Pages: 3
... part of nature. The romantics stand as ambassadors of intuition and defenders of the heart, challenging the supremacy of the reign of reason; willing to resign themselves to nature, solitude, and perhaps even to the melancholia of alienation. They also take a stand to never relinquish the sovereignty of their own souls and passions to the rules of reason emphasized in the enlightenment age. A literary writer like Jean Rousseau defends the uniqueness of the individual when he emphasizes self-absorption and opposes self-judgement: “I am not made like any of those I have ever seen; I venture to believe ...
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World War I
Number of Words: 577 / Number of Pages: 3
... to the front.
World War I marked the beginning of chemical warfare in which
clouds of poisonous mustard gas contributed to the casualties of the war
(Stewart 8).
Unlike previous wars, World War I was fought on the sea and in the
air. This was the first war in which airplanes and zeppelins were used. At
the outbreak of the war, each army had several hundred planes. During the
war, the planes directed shell fire, photographed enemy bases, shot at
troops, dropped leaflets, and battled each other in the air. The Germans
used the zeppelin for observation and for bombing raids ( Young World Book
37 ...
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History 2
Number of Words: 1264 / Number of Pages: 5
... do not find any significance behind the historical events that have happened. People who actually find history boring do not realize how much our ancestors have done to get us where we are today. Many also do not recognize the importance of history and how it has evolved. The young should appreciate that history is a part of how the people and events of the past have gained so much freedom for all of America. I particularly never appreciated history. I always thought that it was boring and just facts that I needed to know to pass a class. When I read Lessing's statement and her belief about how ...
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The Conflict In Chechnya
Number of Words: 1562 / Number of Pages: 6
... Yeltsin's decree and called for the situation to be settled "not by applying emergency measures but by political means." (Herze, P. B., The Chechens: Perennial Rebels of the Caucus.) The parliament's efforts to secure the peace in Chechnya were unsuccessful. Dudayev ordered general mobilization to defend Chechnya against a Russian invasion. "On November 29 Russian jets bombed Grozny's airport, and Yeltsin issued an ultimatum giving Chechens 48 hours to lay down arms." (Herze, P. B., The Chechens: Perennial Rebels of the Caucus.) Consequently, the Chechens refused the notion, and a full-scale invasion o ...
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Rabindranath Tagore
Number of Words: 212 / Number of Pages: 1
... When he was 17 years old, his first book appeared. In 1878, after a brief stay in England, he returned to India where he quickly became the most important and popular author of the colonial era. He wrote poetry, short stories, novels, and plays. His Collected Poems and Plays was published in 1966. He also composed several hundred popular songs. In 1929 he also began painting.
was a dedicated internationalist and educator. He established a school in 1901 in his estate in Bengal. He did this to teach a blend of eastern and western philosophies. His school was expanded into an international u ...
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